Client

How we work
To avoid wasting your time, we invest our time in getting to know your people, understanding your business, and, of course, discussing your objectives – visiting your organisation, where possible, to experience the working environment at first hand.
In our view it's time well spent.

Our experienced, in-house consultants are all professionals – most have worked as interim or project managers, themselves – so they're well placed to understand both your needs and those of our interim managers, ensuring you only get to meet the best qualified and most compatible candidates. They are also able to offer advice on which skills need to be imported, often providing opportunities for further efficiencies or cost reduction.

For example: on large change programmes, we often provide a suitably experienced interim professional to drive the project, but then recommend clients use their own people for implementation, because they will have to live with the subsequent consequences and outcomes. What's more, 'backfilling' is considerably more cost-effective than placing new people in project roles.

To help ensure we're able to provide a responsive service and meet your future interim management requirements efficiently and effectively, we try to update our knowledge of your company, regularly, through conversations and occasional meetings.

 

Interim managers – helping you to bridge critical or unexpected staffing gaps
Interim managers can provide appropriate leadership and operational expertise where,
for example:

  • A key member of your executive team leaves at short notice, or will be absent for a prolonged period.
  • Your organisation lacks relevant expertise in a specific field
  • A project is short term and there is no need for a permanent appointment
  • There is a surge in demand, existing staff are already working to capacity,
    and additional help is required to deliver business objectives on time.
  • There is a need for a fresh perspective.

In all these circumstances, interim managers can be identified and engaged quickly – and working effectively, from day one.

 

Our method
We have a long-term relationship with the majority of our interim professionals, many of whom have worked on several successful Walker-Cox placements. When required, new executives are sourced through personal recommendations and referrals. The success of our selection process can be gauged by the amount of repeat business we receive.

A continuing relationship
Support doesn’t stop once an interim manager has been placed. We aim to provide a continuing and proactive service to both our clients and our interim managers, to help ensure that every assignment is completed successfully, and any changes to the original brief are accommodated smoothly and efficiently.

The Walker-Cox Consortium
Walker-Cox is the prime contractor for a consortium of over 70 specialist companies, enabling our clients to benefit from a much broader portfolio of complementary services. Each member has been chosen and recruited for their boutique capabilities and deep understanding of their specific market. These companies enable Walker-Cox to offer clients a greater depth of understanding and a much wider range of viable approaches and solutions to their management problems.

To enable us to enhance the scope of the services we are able to deliver, we are always interested to hear from organisations interested in becoming Consortium members.